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A Study of Model of Treatment for Incompetent School Teachers in Taiwan Abstract Lee, Hsiu-Chuan The main purpose of the study is to formulate a treatment model for incompetent school teachers in Taiwan. The study consists of two stages. The questionnaires used for stage one collected opinions of public school teachers, school administrators, members of teacher associations, educational administrators and parents. Nine hundred and sixty one questionnaires were collected in good condition. Chi-square and Z-test were two statistics adopted to analyze the data and to filter the contentious questions for the Delphi survey on stage two. The Delphi questionnaires used for stage two collected opinions of fifteen experts. These experts included school administrators, parents, educational administrators, members of teacher associations and scholars. Percentage was adopted to analyze the data and sixty percent was the threshold to reach the so-called consensus. The study has come to the following conclusions¡G 1. As for the dimension of so-called clear incompetent teachers, ¡§A teacher violates the criminal law and is sentenced by the court¡¨ can be a definition. As for the unclear incompetent teachers dimension, ¡§A teacher is diagnosed with mental illness by doctors and performs his duty badly¡¨ and ¡§A teacher is misbehavior¡¨ can be the definitions. 2.The educational authorities should not list the specific events of incompetent teaching as the criteria. 3. The procedure of treating incompetent teachers can be divided into four stages of two phases. (1)The school phase¡G (A)The sensory stage¡G(a)The complaint letter must be signed and describe incidents objectively. (b)The statutory members of the investigation squad are the principal, directors, parents and the members of the Committee of Teacher Selection and Evaluation (CTSE). (c)They should collect the principal¡¦s comments, director¡¦s comments, comments from the colleagues, parent¡¦s comments, student¡¦s comments, teacher¡¦s self-report, medical records and supervisor¡¦s comments. (d)The investigation must be summed up within a month. The investigation squad should notify the teacher of the investigation results in the teacher¡¦s presence. If the teacher refused to sign to receive the results, a law letter should be sent to the teacher. (B)The assistance stage¡G(a)The statutory members of the assistance squad are school¡¦s section directors and teachers. (b)Teachers misbehaved slightly will go into the assistance stage, while teachers misbehaved badly will enter the resolution stage. Teachers keep on teaching in class during the assistance stage. (c)If facts showed the teacher¡¦s mental illness and worked badly or undoubtedly, the CTSE should recommend him seeking diagnose or remedy from doctors within two weeks. If he or she did not obey, the school should force him or her to the hospital. If he or she did not obey still, the school should dismiss or ask him or her to retire. (d)The teacher should stop working while receiving the medication. The period for remedy must be less than two years. (C)The resolution stage¡G(a) The members of the CTSE should include people who are considered social justice representatives. (b)The Ministry of Education should not reduce the sum of signature to convene the meeting but can reduce required number of members to convene the meeting for the third time. (c)When the CTSE reviews the case, the teacher is entitled to be present to explain. The notification with related information should be sent to the teacher seven days before. (d)If the CTSE decided to dismiss the teacher, then the decision needed the authorization of Ed Bureau. Before authorizing the dismiss that accused the teacher for violating the criminal law, misbehaving badly and being mentally ill, the school was entitled to order the teacher to stop teaching in class. (e)If the CTSE did not manage the case of so-called incompetent teachers, the Ed Bureau would demand the school to handle it within two weeks. If the school did not act, the Ed Bureau had the power to organize a team to handle it and demanded the CTSE to operate afterward. (2)The educational authority phase¡G The review stage¡G(a)The members of the reviewing squad of the Ed Bureau are the representatives of local teacher association, principals of other schools, the local PTA representatives, educational scholars, jurisconsults, the Ed Bureau representatives and psychiatrists. (b)The teacher should be notified to attend the meeting and to explain. The notification letter should be sent to the teacher seven days before. Finally, several suggestions were raised to the educational authorities and future researchers. Keywords¡Gschool teachers, incompetent teachers, treatment model

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In this review I examine the clinical uses of psychedelics as an adjunct to psychotherapy to treat three major mental health disorders; Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Addiction (Substance Use Disorder). I assess the hallucinogen treatment model's efficacy in treating chronic mental health disorders that have been unresponsive to legal and traditional psychiatric treatment. I review the earlier studies conducted with psychedelics and discuss the more recent ones. This review may be helpful to therapists and clinicians who would like to further their understanding of psychedelic therapy.

Major psychotic disorders are one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, having severe impacts on the people who suffer from the conditions, their families and society. There is evidence that if these conditions are identified and treated early, the prognosis is improved. The purpose of this dissertation study is to produce two manuscripts related to the use of family aided community treatment (FACT) with individuals who are experiencing early psychotic disorders. Using a proof of concept design with multiple repeated-measure t tests, this study focused on first-episode psychotic disorder participants (n = 8), with an average age of 19.6 (sd = 3.28) and males comprising 75% of the sample engaged in a family aided community treatment (FACT) protocol in order to examine if psychiatric symptoms scale scores decreased post-intervention. The hypothesis which stated that a year-long family aided community treatment (FACT) intervention would reduce psychiatric symptoms when assessed by the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes (SIPS), the Positive and Negative Symptoms Scale (PANSS), and the Global Functioning Scales in a first episode psychotic disorder sample, is supported. The FACT intervention decreased psychiatric symptom scores in this population. Implications of this study include improved training on early recognition for mental health clinicians and students, implementation of a specific treatment model in community settings, and policy around treatment funding allocation. / Graduation date: 2012

Because of increasing environmental demands, especially on dealing with products end of life phase, product manufacturers and designers must consider the future disposal of their products. For conventional materials like steel and aluminium well-functioning recycling methods exists. This is not the case for structures of polymer composites, which are used more extensively, especially for structures like vehicles and vessels. Several techniques do exist but they are not yet commercially available. The current disposal methods of polymer composites are landfill and incineration. Polymer composites are materials, which consist of several materials like fibre, matrix, and additives. In the form of sandwich constructions also foam core material is added. This circumstance complicates the waste treatment of composite materials. In this thesis a model for assessing possible future waste treatment techniques for polymer composites including sandwich structures is presented. The model is meant to be used as an aid for preparing future disposal for end of life products for planning waste treatment and for facilitating communication in contacts with waste receivers. Recommendations for waste treatment have been formed for a number of polymer composites. These recommendations are based on the analysis of costs and environmental effects and they compare different scenarios for mechanical material recycling and energy recovery by waste incineration. The result of this study points out material recycling as the preferable method for the main part of the studied materials. But this recommendation is strongly dependent on type of virgin material replaced by the recycled material. Energy recovery can also be considered if the polymer composite waste replaces coal, which is non renewable. Though incineration will always result in a cost for the waste producer. In the recommendations mentioned above no information concerning implementation of the different waste disposal techniques is included. Therefore, in this study a model for assessing possible waste disposal techniques for polymer composites is presented. The model is based on internal factors, which are related to the waste and to the processes. To implement the model relevant waste properties must be identified in order to fulfil the conditions set by the required processes involved. A case study was carried out using the proposed model for assessing different waste disposal techniques for the hull of the Visby Class Corvette in the Royal Swedish Navy. Six different techniques were studied for the hull structure. Since almost all the important waste properties were known and the waste was assessed to be treatable all the included techniques except one are shown to be usable in the future. Many investigations have pointed out material recycling as the best alternative considering environmental effects. This is also valid for polymer composite materials. Since recycling polymer composites is a complicated process, especially recycling thermoset composite it is important to aquire comprehensive information about the constituents of these materials. / QC 20101021

<p>Because of increasing environmental demands, especially on dealing with products end of life phase, product manufacturers and designers must consider the future disposal of their products. For conventional materials like steel and aluminium well-functioning recycling methods exists. This is not the case for structures of polymer composites, which are used more extensively, especially for structures like vehicles and vessels. Several techniques do exist but they are not yet commercially available. The current disposal methods of polymer composites are landfill and incineration.</p><p>Polymer composites are materials, which consist of several materials like fibre, matrix, and additives. In the form of sandwich constructions also foam core material is added. This circumstance complicates the waste treatment of composite materials. In this thesis a model for assessing possible future waste treatment techniques for polymer composites including sandwich structures is presented. The model is meant to be used as an aid for preparing future disposal for end of life products for planning waste treatment and for facilitating communication in contacts with waste receivers.</p><p>Recommendations for waste treatment have been formed for a number of polymer composites. These recommendations are based on the analysis of costs and environmental effects and they compare different scenarios for mechanical material recycling and energy recovery by waste incineration. The result of this study points out material recycling as the preferable method for the main part of the studied materials. But this recommendation is strongly dependent on type of virgin material replaced by the recycled material. Energy recovery can also be considered if the polymer composite waste replaces coal, which is non renewable. Though incineration will always result in a cost for the waste producer.</p><p>In the recommendations mentioned above no information concerning implementation of the different waste disposal techniques is included. Therefore, in this study a model for assessing possible waste disposal techniques for polymer composites is presented. The model is based on internal factors, which are related to the waste and to the processes. To implement the model relevant waste properties must be identified in order to fulfil the conditions set by the required processes involved.</p><p>A case study was carried out using the proposed model for assessing different waste disposal techniques for the hull of the Visby Class Corvette in the Royal Swedish Navy. Six different techniques were studied for the hull structure. Since almost all the important waste properties were known and the waste was assessed to be treatable all the included techniques except one are shown to be usable in the future.</p><p>Many investigations have pointed out material recycling as the best alternative considering environmental effects. This is also valid for polymer composite materials. Since recycling polymer composites is a complicated process, especially recycling thermoset composite it is important to aquire comprehensive information about the constituents of these materials.</p>

Darbas skirtas priklausomybės liga sergančio asmens ir jo santykio su reabilitacinėje bendruomenėje taikomu gydymo modeliu problemai nagrinėti. Jame siekiama išsiaiškinti kodėl gydymą reabilitacinėje bendruomenėje prieš laiką nutraukia didelė dalis asmenų bei kas įtakoja tokį jų sprendimą. Darbo objektu pasirinkus gydymo modelio bei priklausomybės ligomis sergančių žmonių santykį, siekiama atsakyti, kiek sprendimas likti ar ne bendruomenėje priklauso nuo tiriamos sistemos (asmens) ir jį supančios aplinkos (gydymo modelio) tarpusavio sąveikų bei kiek įtakos šiam sprendimui turi ligos pobūdis ir asmeninės charakterio savybės. Pirmoje darbo dalyje stengiamasi išsiaiškinti koks yra priklausomybe sergantis žmogus bei kokį poveikį jam ir jo elgesiui daro priklausomybė. Išsiaiškinta, kad priklausomybė - nepagydoma liga, su kuria kovoti ir nuo kurios gydytis tenka visą likusį gyvenimą. Nėra pilno pasveikimo, yra tik palaikomasis priklausomybės ligų gydymas. Toliau nagrinėjami gydymo proceso metu su sergančiu asmeniu sąveikaujantys gydymo modeliai. Išsamesnei analizei pasirinkta, geriausiais pasiekimais alkoholizmo gydymo srityje galinti pasigirti, Anoniminių alkoholikų draugija. Aptariami joje taikomo gydymo modelio veikimo principai. Trečiame darbo skyriuje aprašomi galimi sergančio asmens ir gydymo modelio tarpusavio sąveikos rezultatai. Pastebėta, kad „nesusikalbėjimo“ tarp gydymo modelio ir besigydančio asmens priežastys gali būti siejamos su gydymo modelio ir ligos poveikyje... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / This study analyzes the problem in the relationship between the treatment model and addicts problem dealing with the addict and his relationship with he treatment model used in the rehabilitation center. The objective of the study is to determine why a large percentage of people stop their treatment in the rehab prematurely and what influences their decision. Since the object of the study is the relationship between the treatment model and the addict, the study tries to answer the questions, to what degree does the decision to stay in treatment depend on the interactions between the system (individual) being researched and the surrounding environment (treatment model), and to what degree is the decision influenced by the nature of the illness and character of the individual. In the first section of the study the researcher attempted to determine the characteristics of the addict and how the addiction influences him and his actions. The study found that no one can be healed from addiction. An addict will struggle and will have to be treated for the rest of his life. There is no complete cure, there is only supporting treatment for the individuals suffering from addiction. Next, the study analyzes the treatment models which interact with the addict throughout the treatment process. Alcoholics Anonymous Association – the most successful program in treating alcoholics – was chosen for detailed analysis. This section discusses its treatment model principles. The third section of... [to full text]

Magister Psychologiae - MPsych / Cape Town is suffering from high rates of alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems. Despite the need for effective treatment, there are insufficient AOD treatment facilities available, with barriers to AOD treatment being particularly pronounced among historically disadvantaged communities (HDCs). In addition, the high drop-out rate of patients from AOD treatment, and the finding that retention in treatment is predictive of positive outcomes, increases the necessity of retaining people who enter AOD treatment.This study therefore aimed to identify those patient-level factors impacting on the successful completion of and retention in AOD treatment. In particular, the study aimed to describe the relationship between treatment process factors (therapeutic alliance,motivation, treatment satisfaction, social support), demographic and psychological variables, and treatment completion and retention. The Texas Christian University (TCU) Treatment Model, which conceptualises the AOD treatment process, provided the theoretical framework for the study. Using a quantitative design, secondary data analysis was conducted on a section of data that was originally collected by the Medical Research Council (MRC) via a cross-sectional survey. The sample consisted of 434 individuals from HDCs who had previously entered AOD treatment. Multiple regression analyses revealed that the therapeutic alliance, treatment satisfaction, abstinence-specific social support and depression were significant predictors of treatment completion, while race,therapeutic alliance, abstinence-specific social support and anxiety were predictive of the time spent in treatment. These predictors were positively associated with treatment completion and time in treatment. Black Africans spent significantly less days in treatment than Coloured individuals, although both groups were equally likely to complete treatment. The results suggest that by strengthening the therapeutic alliance,social support and treatment satisfaction, treatment completion and retention can be improved. This can be achieved by training, ongoing monitoring of these factors during treatment, and greater involvement of supportive social networks in a patient’s recovery. The findings also point towards the need for improved service delivery for Black Africans, who confront many barriers to accessing inpatient AOD treatment.

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